Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

In a pivotal scene from the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me ...

Modern American ballparks are surrounded by all the trappings of the fan experience: loud music, fried foods and cold beers, T-shirt guns, mascots dancing while the crowd sings about Cracker Jacks—and ...

Researchers elucidate the complex physical mechanisms and fluid dynamics involved in a handclap, with potential applications in bioacoustics and personal identification, whereby a handclap could be ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from One Hand Clapping One Hand Clapping is a musical 2D puzzle platformer that requires players to sing into their microphone to solve puzzles. A new Shovel ...

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt to accelerating the drying of nail polish. Not all with autism do ...

Stories about the development of life on earth used to be much more compelling. The hands of deities split the mountains and raised the seas. Gods crafted man from dust and dreams: Animals were ...